tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 21 21:42:33 1997
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Re: vegh
- From: Bill Willmerdinger <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: vegh
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 23:33:58 -0400
- Organization: IKV Crystal Dagger, Klingon Assault Group Rochester NY
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Guido wrote:
> Incidentally, magh has acquired quite a semantic burden as of TKW, now
> connoting "reveal, indicate." This was partly odd because we have the
> semimetaphorical "Her eyes betrayed sadness," but why this homophonous usage
> should carry over into Klingon is funky. That's why we have (and rightly so)
> separate words {chIl} and {luj} as respective translations for the
> homophonous "lose". Does magh deserve a big "oh well"?
Possibly. I see the "reveal" aspect of {magh} as "revealing something
that one wouldn't normally want revealed". The sadness which her eyes
"betrayed" or "revealed" is not something she *wanted* others to see;
someone or something (in this case, perhaps her subconscious mind)
caused that hidden thing to be visible. YMMV.
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